Who we are
we are 
An Agile consultancy specialising in digital transformation
Our roots go back to 2006. We were a provider of System and Software engineering improvement services under the banner of DNV IT Global Services (ITGS). Agile software development was already a large part of our activity in Asia. As a result of an MBO in 2011, ITGS became inspearit. Businesses were increasingly embracing Agile product management approach. In 2014, Yann Hamon, Executive VP of inspearit Asia, took charge of the company. Since then, we have led important transformation programs in the region and significantly extended our expertise to include:
We have offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and plan for further expansion in Asia in the future.
In October 2021, why innovation! officially joined Wavestone, a global consulting firm headquartered in Paris, France to better serve our clients in Asia-Pacific.
We are safeguarding a future where we all have better lives by helping companies stay relevant and leverage technologies. We are achieving this goal by developing their capability to continuously inspect and adapt their organisation, operating model, ways of working, mindset and collective as well as individual skills.
We are a consultancy that helps organisations to accelerate their digital transformation by enabling agility, customer centricity and innovation. We provide support in the following ways:
Building our own capabilities
Highly competent teams
Service performance
Building our own capabilities
We uplift our clients’ competencies in all areas required to successfully Identify new revenue stream opportunities, co-create new products and services with business and technology, execute experiment-based, data-driven market-fit strategies, develop and release new digital solutions. We facilitate the mindset shift and leadership culture required to operate an Agile organisation.
Highly competent teams
Our consultants are experienced professionals with a proven track record as practitioners in their areas of expertise. A selective recruitment process focuses on know-how, passion and customer value focus. Our consultants have an average of 15 years of experience in the field. We enable continuous learning through our internal mentoring program, participation in community events and conferences, and regular knowledge sharing sessions and training.
Service performance
Over more than 15 years, we have refined our own proven transformation methodology to enable Agile adoption without disrupting business. We have built hundreds of reusable assets and tools to quickly deliver tangible changes and outcomes. YANG, our service delivery framework, is an Agile process designed for optimising measured benefits while dynamically re-prioritising the change plan based on results, business constraints and new opportunities.
Our values support our purpose: First we care! for the business value we deliver, for the clients and teams we serve and also, for each other. Passion and fun make us dedicated and curious, which are key for satisfying our customers and to stay relevant as consultants. We actively contribute to and develop local Agile communities, participate in conferences and organise events where we love sharing our thoughts and getting inspired.
Chris is a self-taught Content & Digital Marketer with 10+ years of experience in B2C Marketing. His knowledge encompasses both SEO & SEM, having experience in developing content strategies, product launch campaigns & events, design and working with paid channels. As the Digital Marketing Manager of why innnovation!, he pulls from his varied expertise to deliver value by incorporating a customer-centric approach to marketing. He believes that the success of a company and brand lies in its ability to relate and provide solutions to customers via a subtle, warm, and human approach.
With an Honours Degree in Business & Marketing, an advanced diploma in Mass Communications, and a diploma in Arts Management, Chris makes use of this diverse background to go beyond his scope by doing more. He often describes marketing as one-part data and one-part sorcery.
He also has a passion for words and when not developing ad copies, he’ll be working on his novella of short, horror stories. Or at the gym.
With a PhD in Computer Sciences, Yann has 30 years of experience in System and Software Engineering and a strong expertise in Digital Innovation, Agile Adoption and Organizational Transformation.
Through his career, he has been involved in large software development projects and process improvement programs in Europe, Australia and Asia.
As the Innovation Manager of Thales ATM, he led the rejuvenation program of the Air Traffic Management product line and initiated the technical and cultural migration of the Product & Development department. This program received the Australia and New Zealand innovation award in 2008.
In Asia for more than 10 years, Yann has been a consultant, providing coaching and strategic advises to enable and improve business agility and innovation in various industries including Finance, Transport, Retail and Health Care.
Andrew Coates has a Master of Science in Information Technology and over 21 years of traditional and Agile delivery experience. He has been successful in delivery roles in Banking, Insurance, Telecommunications and the Entertainment sectors, spanning Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore. This breath of experience enables Andrew to understand and build strong rapport with stakeholders moving from traditional to Agile ways of working.
Since 2017 Andrew has been growing his digital skills in roles such as Product Owner, Scrum Master and Agile Coach. He regularly mentors Agile Teams on Story decomposition, splitting, estimation, backlog grooming, velocity tracking and progress reporting. He works with Teams of Teams to improve their Agile at scale, focusing on shared backlog management, metrics, reporting and Advanced Roadmaps. He is an experienced Agile instructor and has developed and delivered customized courses to meet specific client requirements.
Certified with major Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban, as well as scaling frameworks like SAFe and Disciplined Agile, Andrew is able to combine methodologies, tools and techniques to design a target operating model best suited for the organisational needs.
Vikram Asokan had a unique career journey. He started as an entrepreneur where he launched his own publishing start up. Then, he moved into pharma and landed in IT delivery and consulting where he grew his experience in different industries and domains ranging from Fashion to Forex and Fintech.
He is a strong people person and is passionate about training and coaching. His Project & Program leadership and grassroots delivery experience of more than two decades gave him the unique skill to understand and solve team issues.
Vikram is a graduate in chemistry and has a Masters in International Business. He is a certified Project Management professional, SAFe Agilest and IC-Agile Certified Agile coach. He is an organiser of Hong Kong weekend coders & Agile Hong Kong Community
He is also actively involved with PMI, Scrum & Agile groups in Hong Kong and across the globe. He is currently a Taekwondo & Mandarin student. In his free time he loves reading books, listening to podcast and TED Talks.
Vikram is passionate about farming. He actively involves himself with farming communities to make farming sustainable & profitable.
Chris is a self-taught Content & Digital Marketer with 10+ years of experience in B2C Marketing. His knowledge encompasses both SEO & SEM, having experience in developing content strategies, product launch campaigns & events, design and working with paid channels. As the Digital Marketing Manager of why innnovation!, he pulls from his varied expertise to deliver value by incorporating a customer-centric approach to marketing. He believes that the success of a company and brand lies in its ability to relate and provide solutions to customers via a subtle, warm, and human approach.
With an Honours Degree in Business & Marketing, an advanced diploma in Mass Communications, and a diploma in Arts Management, Chris makes use of this diverse background to go beyond his scope by doing more. He often describes marketing as one-part data and one-part sorcery.
He also has a passion for words and when not developing ad copies, he’ll be working on his novella of short, horror stories. Or at the gym.
With a PhD in Computer Sciences, Yann has 30 years of experience in System and Software Engineering and a strong expertise in Digital Innovation, Agile Adoption and Organizational Transformation.
Through his career, he has been involved in large software development projects and process improvement programs in Europe, Australia and Asia.
As the Innovation Manager of Thales ATM, he led the rejuvenation program of the Air Traffic Management product line and initiated the technical and cultural migration of the Product & Development department. This program received the Australia and New Zealand innovation award in 2008.
In Asia for more than 10 years, Yann has been a consultant, providing coaching and strategic advises to enable and improve business agility and innovation in various industries including Finance, Transport, Retail and Health Care.
Andrew Coates has a Master of Science in Information Technology and over 21 years of traditional and Agile delivery experience. He has been successful in delivery roles in Banking, Insurance, Telecommunications and the Entertainment sectors, spanning Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore. This breath of experience enables Andrew to understand and build strong rapport with stakeholders moving from traditional to Agile ways of working.
Since 2017 Andrew has been growing his digital skills in roles such as Product Owner, Scrum Master and Agile Coach. He regularly mentors Agile Teams on Story decomposition, splitting, estimation, backlog grooming, velocity tracking and progress reporting. He works with Teams of Teams to improve their Agile at scale, focusing on shared backlog management, metrics, reporting and Advanced Roadmaps. He is an experienced Agile instructor and has developed and delivered customized courses to meet specific client requirements.
Certified with major Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban, as well as scaling frameworks like SAFe and Disciplined Agile, Andrew is able to combine methodologies, tools and techniques to design a target operating model best suited for the organisational needs.
Vikram Asokan had a unique career journey. He started as an entrepreneur where he launched his own publishing start up. Then, he moved into pharma and landed in IT delivery and consulting where he grew his experience in different industries and domains ranging from Fashion to Forex and Fintech.
He is a strong people person and is passionate about training and coaching. His Project & Program leadership and grassroots delivery experience of more than two decades gave him the unique skill to understand and solve team issues.
Vikram is a graduate in chemistry and has a Masters in International Business. He is a certified Project Management professional, SAFe Agilest and IC-Agile Certified Agile coach. He is an organiser of Hong Kong weekend coders & Agile Hong Kong Community
He is also actively involved with PMI, Scrum & Agile groups in Hong Kong and across the globe. He is currently a Taekwondo & Mandarin student. In his free time he loves reading books, listening to podcast and TED Talks.
Vikram is passionate about farming. He actively involves himself with farming communities to make farming sustainable & profitable.
Chris is a self-taught Content & Digital Marketer with 10+ years of experience in B2C Marketing. His knowledge encompasses both SEO & SEM, having experience in developing content strategies, product launch campaigns & events, design and working with paid channels. As the Digital Marketing Manager of why innnovation!, he pulls from his varied expertise to deliver value by incorporating a customer-centric approach to marketing. He believes that the success of a company and brand lies in its ability to relate and provide solutions to customers via a subtle, warm, and human approach.
With an Honours Degree in Business & Marketing, an advanced diploma in Mass Communications, and a diploma in Arts Management, Chris makes use of this diverse background to go beyond his scope by doing more. He often describes marketing as one-part data and one-part sorcery.
He also has a passion for words and when not developing ad copies, he’ll be working on his novella of short, horror stories. Or at the gym.
With a PhD in Computer Sciences, Yann has 30 years of experience in System and Software Engineering and a strong expertise in Digital Innovation, Agile Adoption and Organizational Transformation.
Through his career, he has been involved in large software development projects and process improvement programs in Europe, Australia and Asia.
As the Innovation Manager of Thales ATM, he led the rejuvenation program of the Air Traffic Management product line and initiated the technical and cultural migration of the Product & Development department. This program received the Australia and New Zealand innovation award in 2008.
In Asia for more than 10 years, Yann has been a consultant, providing coaching and strategic advises to enable and improve business agility and innovation in various industries including Finance, Transport, Retail and Health Care.
Andrew Coates has a Master of Science in Information Technology and over 21 years of traditional and Agile delivery experience. He has been successful in delivery roles in Banking, Insurance, Telecommunications and the Entertainment sectors, spanning Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore. This breath of experience enables Andrew to understand and build strong rapport with stakeholders moving from traditional to Agile ways of working.
Since 2017 Andrew has been growing his digital skills in roles such as Product Owner, Scrum Master and Agile Coach. He regularly mentors Agile Teams on Story decomposition, splitting, estimation, backlog grooming, velocity tracking and progress reporting. He works with Teams of Teams to improve their Agile at scale, focusing on shared backlog management, metrics, reporting and Advanced Roadmaps. He is an experienced Agile instructor and has developed and delivered customized courses to meet specific client requirements.
Certified with major Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban, as well as scaling frameworks like SAFe and Disciplined Agile, Andrew is able to combine methodologies, tools and techniques to design a target operating model best suited for the organisational needs.
Vikram Asokan had a unique career journey. He started as an entrepreneur where he launched his own publishing start up. Then, he moved into pharma and landed in IT delivery and consulting where he grew his experience in different industries and domains ranging from Fashion to Forex and Fintech.
He is a strong people person and is passionate about training and coaching. His Project & Program leadership and grassroots delivery experience of more than two decades gave him the unique skill to understand and solve team issues.
Vikram is a graduate in chemistry and has a Masters in International Business. He is a certified Project Management professional, SAFe Agilest and IC-Agile Certified Agile coach. He is an organiser of Hong Kong weekend coders & Agile Hong Kong Community
He is also actively involved with PMI, Scrum & Agile groups in Hong Kong and across the globe. He is currently a Taekwondo & Mandarin student. In his free time he loves reading books, listening to podcast and TED Talks.
Vikram is passionate about farming. He actively involves himself with farming communities to make farming sustainable & profitable.
